Day Mares

Counterparts to the Night Mares, these invisible equines bring pleasant daydreams to people.

Deadpans

Creatures who live around cooking fires, associated with slinky copperheads. They are said to have the ugliest faces in nature.

Demons

Beings who are eternal and live beneath Xanth�s surface. Some are benign, some evil. Rarely one will breed with a human being. A demon can change their form to anything they wish, usually anything that will torment a person. They can phase in and out through walls. Very little can keep a demon out of a place it wishes to go. If one senses that it can make mischief, it will come back again and again unless physically or magically prevented. Some demons have horns and barbed tails but others only have a slight glow in their eyes. A female demon is known as a Demoness. They tend to be a little more mishevous than the males. The Demon X(A/N)th is Among the most powerful demons, but he hates contact from anyone, because he is a stronger more powerfull demon who is striving for a higher social standing in the game he plays with the other Powerfull Demons. Recently X(A/N)th has taken a personal interest in mortal folk.

Demon X(A/N)TH

The source of magic. He lives in the deepest cavern, sealed off from intrusion, where he has been for a thousand or more years. His body has leaked a trace amount of magic into his surroundings, and this accounts for all the magic in Xanth. In return for a guarantee of privacy, he has bequeathed "Magician-caliber sorcery" to all Bink's descendents. He is frustrated by his inability to gain status on other Demons, such as E(A/R)TH, V{E/N}US, P|L/U|TO, JU[P/I]TER, NE�P/T�UNE, or lovely **SA((T/U))RN**.

Diggle

The largest member of the family of voles, which include also the squiggles and the wiggles. The diggle resembles a giant worm, moving by elongating and contracting his body. He will work for a song.

Dimepedes

see �Pedes.

Dipsas

A little snake whose bite makes the victim unquenchably thirsty. There are few remedies, such as draught from a healing spring or from the winespring of the wild women of Parnassus.

Dollarpede

One hundred times the size of a centipede, but without much power, because it is made of green and gray paper. The face resembles that of a sphinx, while the backside suggests a bird waxing amorous with a shield. Some rare dollarpieces have silver backbones, and feed on things like Principal, Interest, Assets, Liabilities, or Budgets.

Dragonflies

Insects that zoom around like little fighter planes jetting fire and strafing their targets. When hit themselves, they go down in smoke and explode as they crash into the ground.

Dragons

The most varied and dangerous life form in Xanth, with a number of types and subtypes. All dragons are covered with thick metallic scales, they are very hard to kill and should be avoided at all costs. The most famous dragon is Stanley Steamer the Gap Dragon. There are fire-breathers, smokers, steamers, and some that are just dragons. There are small, medium, and large. There are land, sea, air and tunnel dragons. Steamers can shoot hot steam from their mouths, this can be just or more effective than fire. Smokers shoot hot smoke from their mouths, this is effective because it also blinds the victim making them easier to chomp. Fire breathers (can you guess) breath fire. In general, dragons are the standard against which all other viciousness is measured. All dragons are covered with thick metallic scales, they are very hard to kill and should be avoided at all costs. Normally they don�t attack men or centaurs because the numbers, weapons, organization and magic of such creatures make them formidable opponents, but it remains true that more men are eaten by dragons than vice versa.

Dream Equine

see Night Mare.

Dryad

A tree nymph who ages with the tree she inhabits, beautiful and immortal as long as her tree survives.

Dune

Sand which preserves by cleaning and securing the bones of assorted creatures so they can be admired millennia hence. Their treasures are called fossils.